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It's crazy but true, my pub carpet collection got a mention in the December issue of KLM's inflight magazine Holland Herald!! In case you're not flying KLM this month, flip to page 12 and see for yourself! If you haven't already, take a look at all the carpets I've collected so far (about 165!) on Flickr...

Ever since I read about how one of my favourite living artists Grayson Perry draws in front of the telly, I haven't been able to watch anything without sketching. It has really helped loosing me up (even without beer, though I've done some sipping a cocktail... I recently bought some felt pens, to go Grayson Perry all the way...

Yay, it's officially out today: the first full length album by the wonderful Miss Maud's Folly! With artwork by yours truly. Available physically from the band's website and digitally via iTunes...

I've had a few requests for prints of these birds I did in ink and Ecoline, and now I got some beautiful giclée prints made. They're printed on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle German Etching paper, which has a fine texture, like watercolour paper...

I really enjoyed listening to Grayson Perry's series of lectures on art for BBC Radio 4 (listen or download these Reith Lectures here). In one episode he mentioned he like's drawing in front of the television while watching crap programs...

It's been far too long since I've organized a Pub Carpet Crawl. Though the last two London crawls were loads of fun, they were not very successful in terms of carpet-count, so I think I had been demotivated a bit by this... But a feature in the December issue of KLM's inflight magazine Holland Herald (yes yes!!!) should be celebrated with another crawl!!